The Soviet Union has rejected a U.S. offer to share in the technology for space-based defenses being developed under President Reagan’s “Star Wars” program, Paul H. Nitze, the chief U.S. arms control adviser, said in Geneva. “They claim it would be a humiliation for them to participate in such a joint effort,” he said on a satellite link-up with reporters in West European capitals. U.S. and Soviet negotiators spent almost 3 ½ hours discussing space weapons, the sticking point in the Geneva arms control talks, U.S. delegation spokesmen said.
The President’s pledged adherence to the 1979 arms limitation treaty confirms Mr. Reagan’s intention to destroy all arms control agreements, according to the Soviet Union. A statement issued by the Foreign Ministry also denied that the Soviet Union had been violating the 1979 treaty, which set limits on long-range nuclear missiles and bombers. The Russians specifically rejected the allegation that they were developing two new land-based intercontinental missiles, the SS-24 and the SSs-25, instead of the one permitted by the pact. The Soviet statement reiterated that the SS-25 was a modernized version of an earlier weapon, the SS-13.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, said today that the Soviet Union must modernize its economy to expand consumer goods and services and to support the military spending necessitated by “imperialism’s aggressive policy.” Speaking at a meeting on science and technology, he said the nation must overcome the “negative trends” of the Brezhnev era and raise technology and industry to world standards. Mr. Gorbachev set out a strategy of renovating and upgrading older factories, reducing waste and increasing the quality of goods. He traced the present problems to the rule of Leonid I. Brezhnev, from 1964 to 1982, when rapid postwar growth began to slow down.
An East-West spy exchange was carried out on the Glienicke Bridge between West Berlin and East Germany, State Department officials announced. They said the United States had freed four East Europeans imprisoned on espionage charges in exchange for 25 Western agents who had been held prisoner in East Germany and Poland. The exchange was described by one official as “the biggest spy swap” in memory. It was carried out at 1 P.M. Berlin time on the Glienicke Bridge, which crosses the Havel River and connects West Berlin and East Germany. The bridge has been the scene of famous East-West exchanges in the past. No Americans were involved in the exchange, but a Justice Department official said many of those freed by the Communists had been “of interest” to the United States, apparently suggesting that they had worked for American intelligence or for other Western intelligence agencies in collaboration with Washington.
The Turkish terrorist who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II four years ago testified today that an order to assassinate the Pope had come from the Soviet Embassy in Bulgaria. The Turk, Mehmet Ali Ağca, said he had been told that a first secretary of the embassy, who he said went by the false name of “Milenkov, or Malenkov,” passed 3 million West German marks (then about $1.2 million) to the Gray Wolves, a group of Turkish right-wing extremists, to assassinate the Polish-born Pope. It was the first time that Mr. Ağca had attributed a purported plot to kill the Pope to the Soviet Union, Mr. Ağca and four other Turks are accused of conspiring with three Bulgarians to kill the Pope. Both the Soviet Union and Bulgaria have denied any role in such a plot.
Turkey’s Parliament began debating a bill today to give the police sweeping new powers. The draft prepared by Prime Minister Turgut Ozal’s Conservative Government gives the police wide powers to search and detain suspects, use weapons, intercept mail and tap phones. Opposition parties, the Turkish press and many Western diplomats have voiced concern over the bill, some saying it would create a police state. The European Community Commission’s representative here, Gwyn Morgan, was accused of interfering in Turkey’s affairs after he told the press that the commission opposed the bill. Mr. Ozal said Turkey would not bow to pressure from the West, however, a group of legislators from Mr. Ozal’s Motherland Party today submitted late amendments to the bill, toning down some articles.
One Polish priest was jailed for a year and another received a 10-month suspended sentence for joining a sit-in by high school students in the southern town of Wloszczowa in protest against the removal of crucifixes from their classrooms. Father Marek Labuda, who was jailed, was found guilty of resisting the law and refusing to leave the school premises when requested, a church official said. Father Andrzej Wilczynski, tried on the same charge, received the suspended sentence.
A school bus packed with children on an outing was struck by a train near Haifa, Israel, killing 22 people and injuring 15 in Israel’s worst rail accident. Israel radio said the dead included 18 students, two mothers, a teacher and the driver. Most of the children were seventh graders on their annual year-end trip to a nature preserve. The rail crossing is at the top of a steep hill, cannot be seen until a driver is almost upon it and has no gate. The engineer applied the brakes 250 yards away, but was unable to stop, authorities said.
Shia Muslim and Druze militias battled in West Beirut, and Muslims and Christians exchanged mortar barrages, closing the only remaining crossing between the Lebanese capital’s two sectors. Police said 12 people were killed and 63 wounded in Beirut and in factional clashes in the northern port of Tripoli. Meanwhile, U.N. officials said they have made no progress toward gaining the release of 21 Finnish U.N. peacekeeping soldiers held by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army despite appeals to both Israel and the militia.
Hijackers seized a Jordanian jetliner at Beirut airport and forced it on a 13-hour journey over the Mediterranean before returning to Beirut for the second time. The gunmen freed five passengers and threatened to kill the others unless an Arab League leader went to the airport to talk with them. The Boeing 727, with about 70 aboard, including two Americans, made refueling stops on Cyprus and Sicily, and was refused permission to land in Tunis or fly over Syria.
Iraqi warplanes attacked the Kurdish town of Sardasht in northwestern Iran today, and Iran said 41 people were killed and 51 were wounded. In Baghdad, an Iraqi military spokesman said two air raids on a military camp at Sardasht, 10 miles from the Iraqi border, were among a series of attacks on Iranian towns today, including two raids on Tehran. The Iranian press agency, monitored in London, said that the raids on Tehran caused no damage or casualties, but that there were several other casualties in the southern city of Abadan. It quoted a Tehran military communique as saying that in retaliation for the Iraqi attacks, 21 Iraqi towns near the front came under heavy artillery fire. It said nine Iraqi soldiers were killed.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India arrived here today amid expressions of optimism within the Reagan Administration that he would would adopt “a more balanced posture” in relations with the United States and the Soviet Union. The Prime Minister, who succeeded his mother, Indira, after her assassination last October 31, is in the United States for a four-day state visit. It is the first visit here by an Indian leader since an eight-day trip by Mrs. Gandhi in 1982. White House and other Administration officials expressed hope that Mr. Gandhi’s meetings with President Reagan on Wednesday would enhance relations. One official said the United States was “eager to establish good rapport” with India.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos said today that he would reimpose martial law in the Philippines if rebel insurgency turned into fighting in the streets. “It is my duty not to allow Communists and socialists to take over the government,” he told Members of Parliament at a meeting at the presidential palace. “The moment there is fighting in the streets, O.K., I will proclaim martial law.” The palace quoted Mr. Marcos as saying he did not believe the situation would reach such a stage. He expressed confidence that the Government “is quite capable of meeting and dealing with the present situation without imposing martial law.” He spoke as the Philippines prepared to celebrate the 87th anniversary of its independence from Spain with a major military parade in central Manila, the first for many years.
President Reagan pressed his campaign for renewed aid to the Nicaraguan rebels today by promising to consider resuming direct talks with the Government in Managua. The President’s promise, made in a letter to Representative Dave McCurdy, an Oklahoma Democrat, appeared to be aimed at alleviating the fears of wavering lawmakers that his Administration sought the overthrow of the Nicaraguan Government. The letter was written as the House of Representatives prepared to vote Wednesday on a proposal, backed by the White House, that would provide $27 million in nonmilitary aid to the rebels over the next nine months. “My Administration is determined to pursue political, not military, solutions in Central America,” the President wrote to Mr. McCurdy, the co-sponsor of the aid package.
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra of Nicaragua has offered to lift the three-year-old state of emergency in his country if the United States halts its efforts to aid anti-Sandinista guerrillas and resumes talks with the Nicaraguan Government. The emergency decree allows the Government wide latitude to restrict political activity, labor organizing, press freedom and other rights, as well as to occupy private property and use special courts to try political cases. It was was first imposed in March 1982, as United States-backed insurgents began carrying out attacks across Nicaragua’s border with Honduras. Mr. Ortega, speaking at a public meeting in Managua on Monday night, said the Reagan Administration should call a cease-fire, stop seeking to finance the rebel force and renew direct talks with Nicaragua.
The son of Josef Mengele, the Nazi death camp doctor, said he had “no doubt” that the body exhumed from a grave in Brazil last week was that of his father. Brazilian police said they wanted scientific proof that Josef Mengele died there.
A new Argentina austerity plan that opens the way for up to $1.2 billion of new loans to Buenos Aires from the International Monetary Fund by next March 27 has been approved by the fund. The austerity measures are aimed at putting the developing world’s third-biggest debtor country, which owes $48 billion to foreign creditors, into a position to keep debt obligations current. In the third world, only Brazil and Mexico owe more. More than $1 billion is past due on Argentine debt, and arrears have been mounting at a rate of $150 million a month, commercial bankers said. The agreement requires Argentina to sharply curb inflation.
A United Nations official asserted today that that president Gafaar al-Nimeiry of the Sudan had deliberately suppressed information about the developing famine in his country, allowing the situation to develop to crisis proportions. The Government of Mr. Nimeiry, who was overthrown in a coup in early April, “hid a lot of information” and ministers were “begging us not to publicize” famine conditions, said Samir Basta, chief representative for the United Nations Children’s Fund in the Sudan. Although nutritional surveys as early as 1983 showed signs of growing malnutrition among Sudanese children, the Government’s refusal to request aid meant relief efforts were postponed, Dr. Basta said.
The Senate voted 63 to 34 to end a ban on funneling military aid to rebels fighting the Marxist government of Angola. The Republican-controlled chamber attached an amendment to a State Department spending bill that, if enacted, would repeal a decade-old prohibition on aiding the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, known as UNITA. Backers said the vote will primarily lend moral support to the rebels and will not necessarily lead to U.S. funding for the guerrilla group.
A human-rights group charged yesterday that Ugandan civilians continue to be unlawfully detained and systematically tortured by troops and security forces of the Government of President Milton Obote. The report, by Amnesty International, said the findings were based on examinations given by two physicians last February to 16 Ugandans who had been imprisoned between early 1981 and late 1984 before fleeing the country.
A Soviet spacecraft has landed on Venus with scientific and communications instruments to carry out experiments as part of an international project, the Soviets’ Tass news agency reported. It said the module made a soft landing on the Mermaid plain and is carrying out research on the planet’s surface. It is relaying information back to Earth via the Vega-1 spacecraft. which released the module two days ago. Tass said. Vega-1 also released a helium balloon successfully into Venus’s atmosphere, according to American trackers of the Soviet spacecraft, which is on its way to rendezvous with Halley’s comet. The weather balloon began sending data on the planet’s clouds and winds.
The Navy will sharply reduce access to secret data. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. said that, as a result of the John A. Walker Jr. spy case, he had ordered the Navy immediately to reduce by 10 percent the number of people with security clearances and to reduce them by 50 percent “as soon as feasible.” Of the 1.01 million officers, enlisted personnel and civilian employees of the Navy, the Secretary said, 900,000 have security clearances of differing levels. In addition, there are 1.2 million employees of contractors producing weapons or equipment for the Navy who also have clearances. He said he wanted all the clearances cut in half.
Congress will study Soviet spy threats in view of the widening Navy spy case. The Senate intelligence committee said it would begin a comprehensive investigation of Soviet espionage efforts against the United States. The investigation will examine American counterintelligence efforts and “the implications for national security growing out of the Walker case,” according to the committee’s chairman, Senator Dave Durenberger of Minnesota, a Republican. The Government alleges that a retired naval communications specialist, John A. Walker Jr., ran the largest espionage network uncovered in the United States in 30 years. As part of a similar inquiry, the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Information, Justice and Agriculture said it would hold hearings beginning next week on United States counterintelligence.
President Reagan meets with members of the space and scientific communities to discuss the latest developments in space exploration and technology.
President Reagan meets with Dr. Edward Teller to discuss the research for a defense against Nuclear missiles.
A tax increase would be needed on top of roughly $50 billion in spending cuts to meet targets for budget deficits, according to the chairman of the House Budget Committee, William H. Gray 3d, a Democrat. The majority leader of the Senate, Bob Dole, a Republican, said such a tax increase was a possibility after spending cuts were approved. But the Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., a Democrat, said any tax increase would have to be “recommended” by President Reagan before Democrats would talk about it. Mr. Reagan is opposed to tax increases, as the White House reaffirmed today. The surprise comments of the Budget Committee chairman, Representative William H. Gray 3d, appeared to be an attempt to reopen debate about a possible tax increase later this year, but only after Congress approves spending cuts, first in a House-Senate budget resolution and later in appropriations providing the money.
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who has said snuff and chewing tobacco pose a cancer threat, appointed a panel to prepare a comprehensive report that may influence whether the government requires warning labels on “smokeless tobacco” products and advertising. Koop’s personal opinion is already clear. He said in December that “smokeless tobacco. including snuff, does indeed pose a cancer threat and is associated as well with certain other pathologic oral conditions.”
Opponents of abortion suffered a setback when the Senate refused to endorse President Reagan’s plans to cut off funding for private international family planning programs that practice abortion. Senators had voted last month to overturn the Reagan program. It rejected, 53 to 45, a proposal by conservative Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina) that would have effectively reinstated the President’s plan.
Fundamentalists held firm control of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, by re-electing the Rev. Charles F. Stanley of Atlanta as their national president. Many Baptists believe that Mr. Stanley’s re-election portends a change in the denomination’s historic opposition to prayer in the public schools.
A Democratic proposal to place national limits on toxic gas pollution from factories is an example of “massive overkill” that could require $1 billion and 11,000 bureaucrats to enforce. Environmental Protection Agency head Lee M. Thomas told a House Commerce subcommittee. But subcommittee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-California), chief sponsor of the legislation, told Thomas that “15 years of disgraceful inaction” by the EPA made the proposal necessary. “The reason we’re doing this (legislation) is because this is what it’s going to take to get the EPA to do the job.” Waxman said.
A veteran civil rights worker and four others were indicted in Birmingham, Alabama, in connection with a Justice Department investigation of vote fraud in black communities. The five were charged with conspiracy, mail fraud, furnishing false information to an election official and voting more than once in last year’s primary elections. One of those indicted was Spiver W. Gordon, 45, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference chapter in Greene County and a national SCLC board member.
Helene von Damm, a one-time Austrian farm girl who serves as U.S. ambassador to her native country, announced her intention to step down at the end of the year in a candid letter to President Reagan in which she said her resignation is in “the interests of our country.” Von Damm, a friend and former secretary of Reagan’s, was at the center of Vienna social gossip early this year by divorcing her third husband and marrying hotel owner Peter Guertler.
A judge dismissed 64 of 208 child-molesting charges today against the founder of the McMartin Pre-School and two other defendants, saying there was not enough evidence to substantiate them. Judge Aviva Bobb of Municipal Court threw out nine of the 12 charges against Virginia McMartin, the 77-year-old founder of the school. Judge Bobb also dismissed all but one of 14 counts against Peggy Ann Buckey, 29, and 42 of the 67 charges against Peggy McMartin Buckey, 58. Judge Bobb said she would dismiss additional charges Wednesday against the other four defendants, Raymond Buckey, 27; Betty Raidor, 64; Babette Spitler, 36, and Mary Ann Jackson, 56. Judge Bobb ruled earlier today that all witnesses must testify in open court rather than by closed-circuit television in the preliminary hearing, which began 10 months ago to determine if there is cause for trial. The prosecution then rested its case, and the defense rested without calling any witnesses. Deputy District Attorney Lael Rubin, who had asked that 28 of the 41 children be allowed to testify outside the courtroom, said she would appeal the ruling.
A federal judge in Minneapolis dismissed civil suits against several therapists, the city of Jordan, city officials and police who were involved in the investigation of alleged child sex abuse in Minnesota’s Scott County. But U.S. District Judge Harry H. MacLaughlin let stand, for the present, suits filed by former defendants in the abuse cases against one police officer and two of the therapists who interviewed alleged child victims. During the investigation, 25 persons were charged with child sex abuse. One pleaded guilty, two others were acquitted by a jury and charges against the remaining defendants were dropped.
Judge and prosecutors in the Claus von Bülow case blamed each other today for the fact that the jury that acquitted him Monday did not hear some evidence that was presented three years ago. In that trial, Mr. von Bülow was convicted of trying to kill his wealthy wife. Each also said that it was the other’s decision to prevent presentation of new charges by his former mistress, Alexandra Isles, that Mr. von Bülow had tried to bribe her not to testify against him at the first trial and that he had discussed with her how much money he would inherit if his wife, Martha, died. At the time of the purported conversation about the money, Mrs. von Bülow was in a coma, which her doctors say is permanent and which the state charged he caused by giving her insulin injections.
With Mayor W. Wilson Goode’s political reputation in the balance, a commission investigating the city’s May 13 assault on a radical group will hold its first public meeting Wednesday, William H. Brown 3d, the chairman, said the commission would concentrate on why the Mayor had not avoided the crisis and how his administration managed or mismanaged it. Mr. Brown, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, said, “The basic question is what did the Mayor know and when did he know it?” Mr. Goode appointed the 11-member commission after he was criticized for giving the police permission to bomb a house occupied by armed members of the radical group, Move, who rejected an ultimatum to leave the house. The two-pound bomb ignited the worst residential fire in the city’s history, killing 11 people in the fortified house and destroying 61 row homes.
A judge in the murder case of John Belushi, the actor, found two reporters in contempt of court and sentenced them to jail today for refusing to testify about an interview with the defendant, Cathy Evelyn Smith. Michael Montagna, a deputy district attorney, said that “the issue of the murder can never be resolved” without the testimony of Chris Van Ness, a freelance writer, and Anthony Brenna, a reporter for The National Enquirer. Judge Brian Crahan of Municipal Court sentenced Mr. Brenna to 20 days in jail and fined him $1,000 and ordered Mr. Van Ness to spend 30 days in jail and pay a $1,000 fine. Both sentences were stayed pending appeals. The reporters refused to testify about interviews they conducted with Miss Smith, a former rock singer, who is accused of murdering Mr. Belushi by giving him an overdose of drugs. Judge Crahan agreed to abandon the scheduled start next Monday of the preliminary hearing in the case.
Investigators have broken two credit card counterfeiting rings suspected of producing a major share of the bogus bank cards being used worldwide, federal agents and banking officials said in New York. State and federal officials seized more than 20,000 fake cards and materials to make 80,000 more — enough to mean a potential loss to banks of $500 million, the officials said. Fifteen persons were arrested and four Manhattan printing plants were raided following yearlong undercover investigations, authorities said.
Federal drug agents huddled inside a steamy warehouse Monday and marveled at the latest smuggling technique: cocaine stuffed inside fake fiberglass Colombian yams. After checking only one-quarter of the 3,000 boxes labeled “Colombian yams” by late Monday, the agents said they had found 300 pounds of cocaine inside the fake yams mixed in the shipment of real yams. The authorities said the total haul might be “well over” 1,200 pounds of cocaine. The cocaine was stuffed in plastic bags, wrapped with paper and coated with fiberglass, which was colored and textured to “the identical appearance of a legitimate yam,” according to a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. The yam shipment arrived June 3 at the Port of Miami aboard the Colombian freighter Ciudad de Papayan. A Customs officer discovered the cocaine in a routine inspection.
Seven weeks after the Coca-Cola Company changed its longtime recipe, many frustrated Coke drinkers are complaining that the new taste is just not the real thing. “It’s a taste tragedy,” said Robert Hester, a writer in Jacksonville, Florida. “It’s flat and too sweet,” said Kathy Kapture, a Detroit waitress. “It doesn’t have the same fizz, it doesn’t quench your thirst and I’m not buying it.” “Completely devoid of any character at all,” declared the humorist Jean Shephard, who has been lacing his one-man shows with Coca-Cola jokes. All this may sound like a tempest in a cola can, but from Montreal to Monterey, California, diehard fans of old Coke are angrily denouncing the idea of tampering with their favorite, hoarding whole cases and paying up to $1.25 for a 6 ½-ounce bottle. And the company that makes Coke says it has been getting 1,500 phone calls a day, mostly from people who dislike the new taste. “Obviously, it is an area of concern,” said Brian Dyson, the president of Coca-Cola USA. “We want everybody to be absolutely pleased.”
Karen Ann Quinlan died in a Morris Plains, New Jersey, nursing home at the age of 31. Miss Quinlan had been comatose for 10 years and was removed from a respirator 9 years ago under a landmark ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court.
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Bob Brenly’s two-out single in the 18th inning scored David Green from second base and gave the San Francisco Giants a 5–4 victory tonight over the Atlanta Braves. It was the longest game ever played in Atlanta, running 4 hours 40 minutes. With the score tied, 4–4, since the eighth, Green opened the 18th with a single against Gene Garber (1–2), the fifth Atlanta pitcher. After Green stole second base, Garber walked Jeff Leonard intentionally. Brenly then drilled a shot to left, scoring Green. Bob Horner’s two homers account for all the Atlanta scores. Frank Williams (1–2), the sixth Giant pitcher, got the victory, which marked the first Atlanta loss in extra innings after five victories.
The Philadelphia Phillies blasted the Mets into the baseball record books tonight with a hammering offense that produced 27 hits and 26 runs and plunged the Mets to the worst defeat in their often checkered 23-year history. Leadoff batter Von Hayes becomes the first Major League player ever to hit 2 home runs in the first inning, starting with a home run, off Tom Gorman, and capping a 9-run outburst with a grand slam, as the Phillies go on to rout the Mets 26–7. Mets relievers Joe Sambito (3 innings) and Calvin Schiraldi (1 ⅓ innings) both give up 10 runs apiece. The 26 runs in one game is a club record and the most in the National League since 1944.
In Montreal, Jody Davis belts a solo homer and Leon Durham adds an 8th inning grand slam as the 1st-place Cubs trip the Expos, 5–3. Gary Lucas, who came on after Randy St. Claire (1–1) walked two batters to load the bases, was pitching when the Cubs’ first baseman drove the ball over the right-field fence.
Mike Scott (5–2) applies the four-hit whitewash as the Astros shut out the Padres, 11–0. Bill Doran has a homer and 3 RBI, while Mark Bailey hits a grand slam. Bailey’s blast, the first grand slam of his major league career and his fourth homer of the season, came on a 3–2 count in the sixth inning off a reliever, Craig Lefferts.
Rick Reuschel scattered six hits over seven innings and drove in three runs with a pair of singles as Pittsburgh ended a seven-game losing streak, routing the Cardinals, 13–2. Reuschel (3–0) hit a two-run single during a three-run Pittsburgh second inning against Neil Allen, then added an run-scoring single as the Pirates made it 10–0 with a six-run third.
Ted Simmons capped a three-run seventh inning with a tie-breaking, two-out double and Milwaukee snapped Boston’s eight-game winning streak as the Brewers beat the Red Sox, 5–3. A right-hander, Danny Darwin (6–4), scattered eight hits in eight innings while becoming only the second pitcher to beat the Red Sox in their last 13 games. He struck out eight and walked three. Bruce Hurst, a southpaw making his first relief appearance since April 5, 1983, replaced the Boston starter, Roger Clemens, at the beginning of the sixth and took the loss, his fifth in seven decisions.
Ed Whitson, booed at the start of the evening and cheered near the end, kept calling the game a turning point in a season of misery. But his performance last night at the Stadium might have been nothing more than a morale builder. Whitson returned to a familiar style — throwing more fastballs and fewer breaking balls — and earned a series of unexpected ovations from a crowd of 22,620. But the Yankees lost to the Toronto Blue Jays, 4–1, in 11 innings — an inning after Whitson departed — when Willie Randolph dropped a routine ground ball on a force play at second base. Randolph’s failure to hold the throw from Dale Berra on Willie Upshaw’s grounder to third allowed Louis Thornton, the Toronto pinch-runner, to score from third with the decisive run. Buck Martinez later delivered a two-run single off Rich Bordi as the Blue Jays ended a three-game slide.
The White Sox crushed the Mariners, 7–1. Tim Lollar held Seattle to one run over 6 ⅓ innings, and Rudy Law drove in two runs with a triple to lead Chicago into first place in the American League West. Lollar (2–2) scattered five hits, walked four and struck out four as the White Sox won their fourth straight and moved a half game ahead of California. Law’s triple capped a four-run second inning for the White Sox. With one out, Oscar Gamble singled. Julio Cruz walked and Ozzie Guillen snapped an 0-for-21 streak with a single to score Gamble. Law then drove in Cruz and Guillen, and scored on a balk by the Mariners’ Billy Swift (1–1).
The Rangers edged the Angels, 6–4. Dave Rozema pitched five innings to win his first start in six weeks, and Texas slugged four homers, all with the bases empty. Rozema (3–4) entered the game with a 9.39 earned run average for his last 11 outings, all in relief, but held the Angels without an earned run.
Carney Lansford singled home Rob Picciolo from second base with two out in the ninth inning at Oakland to give the A’s a 4–3 victory over the Royals. The Royals built a 3–1 lead at the expense of Don Sutton, but the A’s rallied to tie in the seventh. In the ninth Picciolo singled off Bud Black (5–6) and Donnie Hill walked, bringing in Mike LaCoss to pitch. One out later Lansford came through in the clutch. Reliever Jay Howell (6–3) got his third win in three games.
San Francisco Giants 5, Atlanta Braves 4
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Boston Red Sox 3
Texas Rangers 6, California Angels 4
San Diego Padres 0, Houston Astros 11
Chicago Cubs 5, Montreal Expos 3
Toronto Blue Jays 4, New York Yankees 1
Kansas City Royals 3, Oakland Athletics 4
New York Mets 7, Philadelphia Phillies 26
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 13
Chicago White Sox 7, Seattle Mariners 1
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Born:
Zach Diles, NFL linebacker (Houston Texans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Indianapolis Colts, Tennessee Titans, Cleveland Browns), in Abilene, Texas.
Anja Rubik, Polish supermodel, in Rzeszów, Poland.
Chris Trousdale, American pop singer and dancer, in New Port Richey, Florida.
Josh Ramsay, Canadian singer and songwriter (Marianas Trench), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Died:
Karen Ann Quinlan, 31, comatose patient, in Morris Plains, New Jersey.
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